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🗓️ 3 October 2023
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Faith leaders about to be deported from US, religious education in Greece, Danish artists react to 'Quran Law', poll about political figures' religiosity, majority of America now not religious, unusual Detroit church closes, and a new video game got us thinking about the human experience.
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody! Hi friends, well from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. It's Thank |
0:23.2 | God I'm atheist. The podcast. I'm Frank Feldman. And I'm Dan Beacher. And coming up |
0:29.6 | on the show today, Dan, a new video game, or at least new to us, got us thinking about |
0:37.8 | some stuff, some details about the game. Starfield, for those of you who want to get excited |
0:45.2 | about it, or like not a guy. I don't know. It apparently is a bit of a lightning rod in |
0:51.1 | terms of like people loving and or hating it. Oh, okay. Well, it has a religious element |
0:59.1 | to it that we wanted to talk about. So we'll get to that. And we will later on in the |
1:04.4 | show. First, there's some stuff that happened this week in the world, Dan. They're in the |
1:09.9 | world. That's where stuff happens. Including, including an announcement from the US federal |
1:18.0 | government about how they're going to be processing some green card applications. And |
1:25.8 | green card for those of you who don't know, who don't remember the movie with Gerard Depardieu. |
1:31.8 | This is the sort of permanent residence card that makes it legal for you to stay in this |
1:41.6 | country for extended periods of time indefinitely as a non as a non citizen. Correct. Well, a lot |
1:51.2 | of people come to the United States for work, right? Sure. And one of those groups, Dan, |
1:59.0 | are religious leaders, right? People coming to set up. Why? Because we have a lot of immigrants |
2:07.9 | say from like Mexico. And those, the people immigrating from Mexico by and large are coming |
2:14.3 | for work, right? But not necessarily these aren't religious leaders that are coming, right? |
2:20.6 | We're crossing the order into the country. So they need religious leaders from their own |
2:28.8 | culture and traditions and whatnot to come over to guide the flock here, Dan. Okay. |
2:37.7 | Doesn't that make sense? |
2:44.6 | So we have enough religion here. Let's not import anymore. Yeah. No, we are. We are importing it, Dan. |
2:50.8 | But a change at the US Immigrations office, whatever it's called, the State Department has announced |
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